Family Rise by Daily Intelligence

Chapter 302: Chapter 177: Condensing Pill Water Acquired, Smoke Mist Illusion, Secret Mansion (Part 3)

”Patriarch, you stay here first, and I’ll go in to investigate.”

”Hmm, but be careful, don’t be careless.”

Fu Changsheng advised.

In this passage, there’s a Bone Spirit Cold Fire, which ranks among the top hundred anomalous fires.

He and Yu Qingru entered.

They would definitely be frozen to ashes.

Fu Molan responded, operated her cultivation technique, the Ancient Luo Fan floated above her head, and she calmly walked into the passage step by step.

The passage seemed not long.

But entering it, the end was nowhere in sight.

Halfway through.

Suddenly, she saw humanoid ice sculptures standing in the passage, their faces etched with unwillingness and fear at the moment of death.

Fu Molan suddenly became alert.

She walked several more feet.

”Buzz!”

A sound of breaking through the air came rushing from ahead.

And then.

Ice birds were transformed and emerged.

Sweeping over the sky, they pounced toward her. The ice birds seemed only to have Tier One power, yet their tails carried wisps of tiny flames, and the areas their flames touched suddenly decreased in temperature.

With a cracking sound.

The Ancient Luo Fan floating above Fu Molan’s head was instantly frozen.

Fu Molan’s face showed no panic at all. She gestured with her right hand, as spells were uttered, and with a buzz, a Heaven-Trapping Ice Seal howled out.

The ice birds that were attacking suddenly were frozen.

However.

In the next instant.

Explosive sounds of cracking were heard.

The ice birds self-destructed.

Then transformed into strands of Bone Spirit Cold Fire.

Fu Molan’s pupils constricted:

”Could it actually be transformed from anomalous fire?”

She changed her technique, gathering rolling True Essence, which astonishingly formed an ice pitcher in the air. Accompanied by a technique being driven in, a suction force shot from the pitcher, collecting the strands of Bone Spirit Cold Fire into it, and then quickly overlaying them with layers of restrictions.

She opened her mouth.

Ingesting the Bone Spirit Cold Fire into her Dantian, she used True Essence to confine it.

The Bone Spirit Cold Fire could freeze everything, and it couldn’t be stored in a storage bag. Fu Molan intended to slowly refine it later.

The entire passage no longer had the Bone Spirit Cold Fire.

The temperature rose quite a bit.

At the entrance to the passage, Fu Changsheng clearly sensed it and his eyes slightly brightened: ”It seems Molan has already subdued that Bone Spirit Cold Fire.”

Indeed.

After a while.

A rapid buzzing sounded at his waist, and a technique got driven into it, Molan’s voice came through:

”Patriarch, you can come in now.”

As they went through the ice sculpture passage, halfway seeing those humanoid ice sculptures, now with the Bone Spirit Cold Fire gone, they were rapidly melting. Because they had been frozen for so long, their flesh hadn’t decayed, Fu Changsheng didn’t hesitate to collect these humanoid ice sculptures into the storage bag, as they would be a great supplement for Xiaoqing and Autumn Cicada.

At the end of the passage.

A hexagonal mirror appeared before them.

On the hexagonal mirror were inscribed complex arrays.

Fu Molan had been standing, studying it for a long time, hearing footsteps, she turned around and said:

”Patriarch, this hexagonal mirror should be an entrance.”

So complicated.

Along with many humanoid ice sculptures left in the passage.

Sufficiently indicating.

There must be something hidden behind this hexagonal mirror.

Fu Changsheng carefully observed with his Divine Sense, yet couldn’t make out anything peculiar.

”Patriarch, let me try and see.”

Yu Qingru took out the Testing Array Plate, continuously changing as techniques drove into it, and Molan, because she had studied Mechanical Technique, occasionally chimed in with a few supplemental suggestions.

After several hours.

Accompanied by Yu Qingru’s last array flag falling.

Rumble!

The hexagonal mirror started to rotate.

At first, very quickly.

After about half a tea’s time.

The hexagonal mirror stopped rotating.

With a boom.

The mirror surprisingly transformed into a stone door.

A recess was prominently left in the stone door, clearly needing the insertion of a key-like object to open it.

Fu Molan murmured:

”It seems to open this stone door, we still need to find the key for this stone door.”

Yu Qingru’s face turned somewhat pale, she bit her lip in frustration.

After all that effort, to think it ended up in vain.

Fu Molan, however, wasn’t ready to give up easily:

”Let’s search around, if it doesn’t work, let’s go back along the way we came and search several times, this key must be in the ruins, if we’re careful enough, we will definitely find it.”

Fu Changsheng just stood still.

He stared at the keyhole of the stone door for a long time, the shape seemed familiar, yet at the moment, he couldn’t quite recall.

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At the entrance of the Treasure Hall.

Shangguan Feng was seen sitting cross-legged, meditating, his aura slightly unstable.

Beside him lay a corpse.

It was Shangguan Ding.

Moreover.

Six members of the Shangguan Family had entered this place together.

The remaining four, including Shangguan Hongyu, were all injured.

Not far from them.

Were the Gongsun Family’s Grand Elder and another Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, both dead with eyes not closed in peace.

Up to now.

Whether those guarding Duolong Lake or the nine Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Gongsun Family who entered the ruins all perished, and although the Shangguan Family had the advantage of six against two, the Gongsun Family’s Grand Elder, with Foundation Establishment Peak cultivation, retaliated fiercely even as he died, bringing Shangguan Ding down with him.

A clansman died.

And one at the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment.

The mood in the Shangguan Family wasn’t good.

Shangguan Yun, who had always been closest to Shangguan Ding, was tearfully taking out spiritual materials to simply forge a coffin, gathering Shangguan Ding into it.

Shangguan Yun glanced behind.

Seeing the three from the Fu Family never showed up.

He felt slightly irritated.

If the three from the Fu Family had arrived in time, not counting that Qi Cultivation Array Master, there would still have been eight Foundation Establishment cultivators against the two from the Gongsun Family, and the sixteenth brother definitely wouldn’t have died.

Seeing Shangguan Feng rise.

He hurriedly stepped forward and cupped his hands:

”Grand Elder, the Fu Family is a subordinate force, yet in the main family’s time of need, they have not shown up. No matter what, we have to provide an explanation for the fallen sixteenth brother.”

Before the words were even finished.

Shangguan Hongyu frowned.